The Link Duo drew 13 W and was very quiet with only a slight bit of fan noise audible in a quiet room and no drive noise. LaCie Network Space 2.

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This is because part of the OS is on the drives and can't be loaded from flash. I've been researching this issue for quite a while now without making any progress. Hi there,First of all, I was not entirely sure on where to post it, so if it's in the wrong place I'm really sorry.

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Discuss this in the Forums. We'll get a small commission on anything you buy. Figure 3 shows the compact board, which mates with a separate small drive backplane mounted to the chassis. Figure 2 shows the front and rear panels with all indicators and ports explained. Linksys Announces Wall-plugged Velop.

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So you might want to wait until the Duo's one year warranty period expires before trying this. Unlike many of Buffalo's smaller NASes, it was relatively easy to get to the board. You can, however, remove a single drive, replace it with a larger one, let the array rebuild and then repeat the process for the first drive.

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Figure 1 shows the two drives that are easily accessible by simply sliding off the front cover. I was trying to create a wifi configuration profile, using the Appl And speaking of drive swapping, the Link Duo doesn't have the ability to start naked and let you add your own drives.

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The matte black thank you, Buffalo, for not creating yet another glossy black fingerprint magnet! Deciding Between Synology vs. This makes the drives easy to get to when they fail, although they are not hot-swappable. Note the empty spaces on the board for a second LAN port, which Buffalo apparently decided not to include.

The Link Duo introduces a new enclosure that gets many things right. Like every other website on the planet, SmallNetBuilder uses cookies. We take a look at whether it means trouble for your 11ac network. Wifi not strong enough, linkstatipn problem. Our cookies track login status, but we only allow admins to log in anyway, so those don't apply to you. Although it has a pretty good feature set, unfortunately, I think Buffalo left too much performance on the cutting-room floor.